Interesting. Is his tail curled at all?

I'd like to test my pup, if it's not too expensive.
Our Angus Association requires hair (with bulbs-you have to yank the hair out) or blood.
What is the nature of the sample that you used?

I'm very interested in this.

My name entry: LabraChiKeeNorBoxDachsRaner

No curled tail. Smooth coat, lots of loose skin. Weird eyes ("human" eyes, very intelligent looking, green color).

Two cheek swabs are sent in, that's it. Fun trying to keep LJ from chewing them while I swabbed :-).

Lynn said the test is on the market, go to http://www.biopetvetlab.com for sites to order. You all know that what breed is present doesn't really matter with mutts, b/c of all the variations in genetics, but you all also know how obsessed the general population is with "what breed is it?" Might help with adoptions if adopting families can get a certificate showing what the dog is supposed to be. Who knows.

I looked at the list of breeds, and noted that neither the American Pit Bull Terrier or the American Staffordshire Terrier are listed.... not that LJ is really part "pit" but it does leave some question of how they came up with the 6 various breeds besides the lab.

I do think it's interesting, and I do think it has potential. There is also a link to verify parentage, I assume if you have access to sire and dam as well as pup, you can prove the parentage, but I didn't check in to that.

Your dog is the 3rd I know of whom people have thought was a pit mix that turns out to have significant dachshund (sp?) heritage when DNA tested. Weird, eh?

I'm suspect of these tests because they don't have a great DNA data base to draw from. And people have gotten some really off the wall results. I'd love to send in DNA from a couple purebreds and mixed breeds of known origin just to see how accurate the test really is. I just don't want to shell out the money to do so!

I read some of the reviews.....not going there.

Scott Garrett: What is YOUR dog? He looks like MY dog!

I have a very skeptical view of DNA right now just because it doesn't have a lot of data to draw from.(as Mara said) Here a vet will run it for $200. But I suspect it is the same lab. Running a bird sex test with blood runs an individual $25 but my vet says the same lab charges him a lot and he has to ask nearly $200. Go figure.

It would be interesting to have the money to 'test' run some DNA.

I had an oops litter of Brussels Griffon mom and Bugg...Boston TerrierXPug dad.....most look like tall athletic brussels. All the girls are half the size of the boys. (boys 18# girls 7#) The girls my vet says look more like brussels than any of the other purebreds he sees. All have the biddable, soft nature of the mom.

Having had Border Collies all my life I always get people with black and white mutts saying...they are half BC. Yeah, or American Shepherd or Pitt, or beagle or spaniel or setter.... unless they can move sheep they are mutts.

Whatever happened to the old fashioned MUTT pride?


All that said I know my sister has Portuguese Water Dogs and they can DNA to prove sires. As tight as that pool has to be I would wonder since they were, at one time not that long ago, a rare breed.